A new medical method may help vascular disease

Friday, 15 June 2012
Researchers at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg have managed to implant a blood vessel made from a patientâ€™s own stem cells in a ten year old, sick girl. One year after surgery she now is doing pretty fine making the researchers to hope that this could be a method to assist patients who need bypass surgery.

The process involves approach, in making the vein perform better took three to four weeks, according to Michael Olausson, a professor at the Transplantation Center at the hospital. The vein for the girl was obtained from a donation from a deceased person, reports radio Sweden.

“Then we have removed all cells and all the genetic material, and after that we have brought stem cells from the patient who will receive the blood vessel and then grow this vessel out again,” says Michael Olausson, Professor and Director of the Transplant Center at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg to radio Sweden.

At the moment, Michael Olausson and his team believe that the approach could be of great help to many people with plug formation in their blood vessels and that they need to undergo a so-called "bypass surgery".

Asked how important is it that the patient's own stem cells are included in the vein? Michael Olausson replied that it has to do with the immune system recognizing the tissue as its own and thus will not reject it. For him and the patient, it's a big advantage. All the medications that are normally given to avoid the body rejecting the new cell is very powerful and can cause side effects, so it is desirable to avoid them.

He adds that this new method is also very important so that “we’ll be able to solve problem around such things as hearts or kidneys in the future. The next big step for us is probably a work around to get arteries to function well. This opens the door and then maybe, be able to produce whole organs,” says Michael Olausson.
By Scancomark.se Team

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Political Economy

How the various political parties in Sweden fared in the latest opinion poll for February.

Party	Voter Support	Change
Moderates	32.9	+ / -0
Liberal Party (People’s party)	6.5	+0.9
Centre Party,	5.1	+0.6
Christian Democrats	3.8	-0.4
Social Democrats	29.2	+4.6
Green Party	10.5	– 1.3
Left Paty	6.7	-2.1
Sweden Democrats	4.7	-2.2
1928 voters between 6 and 16 February were question: “Which party would you vote for if the election were held today?”

New leader new boost for the Social Democrats as the party sees real boost with the arrival of Löfven

Sunday, 19 February 2012
The Swedish Social Democrats’ partyâ€™s new leader, Stefan Löfven has lifted his party 4.6 percentage points in less than a month, according to new opinion polls. This show a direct contrast with this predecessor, Håkan Juholt, whose arrival at the head of the party only led to the party to keep on sliding.

The opinion polls conducted but polling organisation, Sifo for the Swedish daily, Svenska Dagbladet and which is widely published in other papers show that almost 280 000 new supporters came back to he party, writes Svenska Dagbladet.

The largest losers were fund in the Left Party and the far right party, Sweden Democrats, which dropped 2.1 and 2.2 percentage points respectively.

Among the political blocs, the difference now stands at only 1.9 percentage points between, 48.3 versus 46.4 for the Alliance for the Red-Green. The Christian Democrats are again under the four percent threshold required to be a parliamentary party.

There were also some small changes in the Alliance bloc as also within the Red-Green bloc it was only Social democrats which moved forward impressively. The party ends up with 29.2 percent of support from opinion polls, though still somewhat short of their gains in the last election results. The Greens got 10.5 percent, 1.3 points lower than in the previous poll.

Within the alliance bloc, the changes are minor. Conservative Moderates remain at the same position as in the previous survey with 32.9 percent. Centre Party shifted with 0.6 and stops at 5.1, the Liberal Party goes up by 0.9 to 6.5, and Christian Democrats lost 0.4 and landed at 3.8 percent.
by Scancomark.se Team